Chickenlips Knitting

It's a proven fact: experimenting with yarn leads to stronger crafts. I've now got it bad for beads.

Incredibly bad picture, but this is like my sixth attempt to photograph the first stitch markers I created. No sooner had I started making them than I found myself craving more kinds of beads in more colors. Oh, no--it starts. While among the bead aisles at the local crafts mega-store, I was fortunate enough to encounter a jewelry designer/teacher who gave me a rudimentary idea of what I would need to buy to create these. She asked me twice, pointedly, if I planned to sell them--wary, no doubt, of aiding potential competition. I assured her I had no plans to sell them. I just want to make tons of them and then give 'em away! If I ever get around to dyeing all the sock yarn colorways I envision, I'll include stitch markers with every purchase. So there's a reason to watch my Etsy shop for new items.

With the adoption of Hannibal, I wasn't able to do any dyeing over the weekend. However, J. being the sweet man he is, he understands that for wedding anniversaries, given the choice between yarn and a weekend getaway, or yarn and jewelry, I'll choose the yarn every time. Our 18th wedding anniversary is next weekend, and since he'll be between extended business trips, he phoned up these good people and ordered enough undyed sock yarn to keep me happily busy for the next couple of months or so.

What a guy.

A husband like that, who willingly feeds my yarn addiction, who never criticizes or complains no matter how much yarn I buy, doesn't deserve to be labeled a "muggle." He may not knit, but in my book, he's one of us.

Just joshing. Last week, Uberstrickenfrau (whose blog I enjoy the heck out of) posted this link

and my chocolate cake craving kicked in big time. I didn't use that particular recipe, because I was too lazy to make coffee and buy buttermilk--so I used the cake recipe on the can of Ghirardelli cocoa (which happens to be Michelle's favorite). Oh so good. It had been a long time since I'd baked a cake--and I'm going to wait a good long while before baking another one!

I did manage to finish another knitting project Sunday night.